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eighty-first

[ ey-tee-furst ]

adjective

  1. next after the eightieth; being the ordinal number for 81.
  2. being one of 81 equal parts.


noun

  1. an eighty-first part, especially of one (1/81).
  2. the eighty-first member of a series.

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It was in this honoured position that the Duke breathed his last on September 13, 1847, in his eighty-first year.

Before this, Marshal Grouchy had likewise expired in his eighty-first year.

I completed last week my eighty-first year, so excuse the defects, for my age's sake.

When I saw him, about his eighty-first birthday, he was looking better than he had for some time.

He was born in 1635 and died in 1715, in his eighty-first year.

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